Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Midnight in the Wax Museum!

Todays story falls a few years out of the "pre-code" horror era range, originally appearing in the May 1957 issue of Astonishing #61, but Richard Doxsee's art style does a decent job of maintaining that "Golden Age" chill of shadowy mood and atmosphere.The story itself probably draws a bit of inspiration from A. M. Burrage's terrifying short story classic "The Waxwork", and here becomes a creepy little crime yarn with a perfectly predictable, yet still shiver inducing finale.

>I'm always a sucker for this type of art. Reminds me of some early Batman possibly the same artist.

I don't know much about Richard Doxsee, in fact I don't know if I was even familiar with his name until this post. Anyone interested in finding out more about his work should check his entry over at GCD here:

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